Seb & Anne Blog revival..2008 overview

So after 2007 came 2008... (no shit ?)

Anne was very occupied this year with the recordings of Flikken Maastricht, so busy she even did not have the time to join for an all-road trip though Turkey !


Together with a few friends (Hans from Touratrek, Mat and Petra from the BMW Boxertoko, Roemer, Margjen, Ewout, Gerben and my roommate for the trip, Leendert) we flew to Turkey and drove for a bit more than a week in the south and middle of Turkey. Basically just seeing where we would end up, some tracks off-road, some stretches on the tarmac.






In and around Göreme, the village build entirely out of naturally formed sandstone peaks, the riding was spectacular, every off road enthusiast's dream!!








Didn't Anne ride at all that year ??
Of course not don't be silly ! She travelled by bike multiple times to and from Maastricht during the recording periods. Also we met a motorcycle instructor who gives off-road trainings in the south of Holland (Roel from motorrijschool Selling). With his we had our first real off road training, and this is where I got hooked to off road riding....
Here is Anne conquering a muddy corner..


















During the year, Anne met up with our former collegae and friend from the DiveProvo time, Sally, in London. Where she now works as a teacher ! She must be the coolest teacher in the world !









After two years working and riding the bikes we both started feeling an urge, a little itch.. and realized we hadn't been diving since August 2006 !.. it had been two years since we had been in the water..
So we bought two new drysuits and went for a week diving in Malta to visit our former employers and friends from Dive Deep Blue divecentre. When we first jumped in realized this was the first time we could dive without having to take care of customers.. :)

Nothing much changed since we left Malta two years earlier, except that Dive Deep Blue extended their business with Tec Deep Blue, providing Technical Divers with all their needs, a few new great wrecks were sunk, and the marine live preservation at divesites seems to improve the wildlife, making the site more interesting for divers. Hopefully that keeps on progresing the next years. We'll be back to check !!

So far 2008...

Seb & Anne Blog revival..

It has been nearly 3 years since the last update on this blog.

Not that nothing happened during the last three years, I was probably just too lazy to write anything. On the contrary, we have been doing quite a lot, and are now starting our new adventure, we are expecting a baby girl early April !


But first things first, let's give you a quick overview of the past three years....

As you know in 2006 we decided to go back to Amsterdam, get a normal job with lots of time to enjoy what we missed during the diving years.
I started working at the head office of Tommy Hilfiger here in Amsterdam as SAP / IT coordinator, and Anne became an assistent producer via a good friend of us. Among others she has been working on a show called "Draadstaal" and latest three seasons of the popular Dutch police series "Flikken Maastricht".

But like mentioned, in earlier blogs, the main reason to start working in Amsterdam/Holland was to enjoy traveling/holidays/city live and so on.


So the end of the Summer of 2007 we took the bikes back to the Alps, for a three week ride.


Passing most of the higher passes in Europe like the "Galibier" at 2645 meter above sea level, a































and the highest motorable pass in Europe,
the "La Bonette" with its peak at 2802 meter !
(No, not 2800... but 2802 !)
Little did we know....